CHANGE MANAGEMENT PLAN

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1 At this time, only changes that affect services where DIR is the customer of record should be reported to DIR. DIR reserves the right to request that all changes affecting any service under the Tex-AN NG CTSA be reported in the future. For direct billed services, Verizon will provide RFC notification directly to the affected customer. Janet Smith will be Verizon s change manager assigned to DIR and will attend all relevant change management related meetings including weekly conference calls, voice and document concerns of potential negative impact of proposed changes, make recommendations for implementation, further analysis, or deferment, and be available for consultation should an emergency Request for Change (RFC) be submitted. Verizon Business performs maintenance on our network on an ongoing basis. This maintenance is necessary to ensure that the network is operating at peak efficiency and that new technologies are added as they are proven. Scheduled maintenance windows occur every month on approximately the third week of the month. Verizon will provide DIR with a Request for Change (RFC) as outlined in the Vendor Reporting Guide no less than ten (10) business days prior to the execution for any changes that will impact DIR or its Customers. The RFC will include the following information at a minimum: 1. Change Requestor Information; 2. A summary of the proposed Change; 3. Reason for the proposed Change; 4. List of affected systems, policies and procedures; 5. Change Category; 6. Change Priority; 7. Change contact information; 8. Description of test strategy and test completion results; 9. Description of implementation methodology and the Requirements (if any) of other entities including other Vendors, DIR, DIR Customer(s); 10. Rollback procedures; and 11. Proposed implementation timeline including multi step Change information, if applicable. Verizon will provide Infrastructure Change/Release Management Reports on a weekly basis. This report shall provide a forward schedule of Changes and maintain a history of Changes that were proposed, scheduled and completed or abandoned with descriptions of results. Verizon will be responsible for coordinating the activities of all Changes with DIR and other Vendors as necessary to ensure that appropriate resources are available for monitoring, testing and implementation. 1

2 Verizon will provide an After Action Report (AAR), including root cause analyses and corrective actions, following any unsuccessful Change or any Change which results in an unexpected negative impact to DIR or Customers.. This report shall be provided within three (3) business days of the change incident. If root cause cannot be determined within three (3) business days, the Vendor shall notify DIR of its timeframe to identify route cause and provide a complete AAR. Changes will be reviewed by a DIR Change Management Board (CMB). The CMB will have the authority, in its sole and absolute discretion, to authorize the Change, postpone the Change, or deny the Change entirely depending on the information provided and the readiness of all parties associated with the Change. DIR reserves the right to request a delay to or deny any RFC. Some reasons for deferring a Change are, but are not limited to: A. Risk is too high; B. Change does not make business sense; C. Resources are not available (router, cable, bandwidth, etc.); D. Not enough information to support the Change; and/or E. Scheduling conflicts. In addition to customer notifications, Verizon also performs the following network management functions: Opens one all encompassing ticket for each Planned Network Event (PNE) that includes all customers affected by that network maintenance activity Tracks the PNE tickets for closure Proactively monitors the network for failures, opens tickets for affected customers, and clears alarms once the customer has been made aware of the failure Verizon currently performs these network monitoring and customer notification functions twentyfour hours a day, seven days a week. Scheduled Maintenance by Verizon Business The duration and timing of planned outages is carefully scheduled, mainly outside normal working hours in a predefined service window, to ensure minimum inconvenience for DIR or Customer Before Service Maintenance can be done several steps need to be taken. These will be described below: In case DIR or Customer Service desk accept Scheduled Maintenance, it will be executed as agreed. In case DIR or Customer Service desk does not accept Scheduled Maintenance, Verizon Business Service desk will assess if an alternative maintenance window can be proposed. (Process restart from point 1.) If a planned outage exceeds the agreed period of interruption, the outage will be treated by Verizon Business Service desk as a priority 1 fault. A Trouble Ticket shall be opened which 2

3 should be considered for escalation immediately, unless the customer(s) have previously agreed to an extension of the outage period. Occasionally Verizon Business is obliged to carry out emergency maintenance works. This unforeseen work with immediate impact on DIR or Customers will be completed as soon as possible with the highest priority. Verizon Business strives to inform Customers as early as possible (by , Phone), and Verizon Business will open a Trouble Ticket for the purpose of the emergency maintenance. If the emergency maintenance runs out the proposed time frame, that will be considered as an outage In the event of a maintenance situation to DIR or Customer s site (whether planned or emergency), Verizon Business will send an with the relevant information to the DIR or Customer s pre-defined list of contacts specifying the date and time of the operation and the expected duration. Maintenance Window In general Verizon Business strives to carry out the scheduled maintenance works during a predefined maintenance window to optimize the activities and minimize the impact for our customers. Maintenance On Transmission Backbone IP Backbone Monday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Friday Saturday Sunday Maintenance Window 23:00 06:00 local time 00:00 24:00 local time 00:00 06:00 local time 00:00 06:00 local time The above mentioned planned and emergency maintenance pertain to the Verizon Business backbone infrastructures globally. Whenever scheduled maintenance is planned on customer equipment (pertaining to the Dedicated Internet Access, Security Services, Private IP on-site or Co-location Services) it will always be executed case by case on a mutually agreed date / time and time-window. Scheduled Maintenance by DIR or Customer A Trouble Ticket would not need to be opened with the Verizon Business Customer Center, unless a customer requires Verizon Business resource (such as engineer) support during the maintenance window. A priority 4 ticket can be opened for this by DIR or Customer. If however, after the maintenance window, there is an issue or outage, DIR or Customer needs to open a Trouble Ticket with the Verizon Business Customer Support Center. Online Change Management Tools Our electronic service management tools are designed to provide online access to your data, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with key customer-to-carrier touch points and a wide choice of entry methods from web-based desktop to system-to-system access through your own applications. 3

4 This is the essence of customer enablement and it s available through three unique services. Online Service Management Tools: The Verizon Enterprise Center is a useful and environmentally-friendly online service management tool portal that helps you do business with us on your terms when and where you need to. You can use the Center to place orders, view and pay invoices, create trouble tickets and analytical reports, and monitor and manage your communications services. The Center provides access to near real-time information so you can make informed decisions about your domestic and global networks. Also, with Verizon Business and Verizon Wireless united on the same portal, large businesses and government agencies experience a seamless online experience with single sign-on to their information via the Center. System Integration to Service Management Tools: ebonding services provide a seamless system-to-system connection that integrates your enterprise activities with our infrastructure benefiting you through automation that makes processes more efficient, allowing you to handle large numbers of transactions, and providing you with access to data right from your desktop. Verizon Enterprise Center Dashboard When it comes to managing the performance of your networks across the country or around the globe, you need quick data access. Verizon Enterprise Center Dashboard is our customizable, network monitoring tool that gives you a comprehensive view of your business landscape from the big picture down to the details. Eligible Verizon Business voice, IP, and data customers can manage their network resources more efficiently through a single overview of network alarms, trouble ticket status updates, network availability trends, and scheduled network maintenance event notices. You even can receive severe-weather advisories via the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) right on your Dashboard to help you plan for contingencies. This feature provides continual updates and you also can zoom in on the map to view specific information for individual locations. Fault Management Identify network concerns in a timely manner with timely network alarms Receive quick updates and navigate between your graphical network view and integrated repair functions with one click Analyze ticket trends and track Service Level Agreements (SLA) performance through powerful visual reports and drill-down capabilities Performance Management Obtain data to make informed decisions via network utilization summaries Analyze network performance with comprehensive, auto-generated, and unique ad-hoc reports View SLA reporting and conformance trends Configuration Management View your service and product topology with network inventory maps 4

5 DIR CONTRACT NO. DIR-TEX-AN-NG-CTSA-010 Receive scheduled maintenance event notices and impacted circuits/facilities information Receive timely updates and navigate between your graphical inventory view and integrated order functions in one click Features The Verizon Enterprise Center portal was designed for easy navigation and provides you with several important business functions to help streamline your business. Feature Description Allows You To: Orders Invoices Repairs Network Tools The Orders page is your one-stop shop for ordering and requesting service changes for many data and voice products. Through the Invoices homepage you can view, analyze, and pay invoices electronically. The online Repairs application gives you the flexibility to self-manage your products and services from virtually anywhere, any time, without making a phone call. The Network Tools homepage offers easy product management. With this tool you have the ability to provision, configure, and modify your voice and data networks, as well as administer Internet and accounts. Place online orders Request moves, adds, changes, and disconnects to your service Obtain account status and milestone reports Download recent orders summary Review current charges across many business products View past bills Make online payments, including a "pay now" option Customize daily call records to monitor, trend, and analyze usage Create, view, and update trouble tickets for voice, data, IP VPN, and Internet services Self-test your circuits without calling your service center View open ticket status activities to stay informed of progress View ticket history to monitor performance trends Connect to our state-of-the-art tools to help you run your business and call centers more effectively and efficiently Track lost calls and help improve callhandling times Trouble shoot incomplete and blocked calls Analyze data to help determine accurate staffing levels Right-size your network Pinpoint critical information quickly and efficiently Balance heavy, toll-free traffic loads 5

6 Feature Description Allows You To: Resources The Resources page can help you understand your Verizon Business products better. Preset routing plans for each toll-free number and modify options in a near real-time environment. Configure your routing now so it is ready to be implemented in the event of natural disasters, snowstorms, or even power outages. Get quick and easy access to up-to-date product information through our forms shortcuts or downloadable eftp client Find IP reference tools, service level agreements, IP domain tools, and general reference tools, including tariffs, USOC (Uniform Service Order Code) manuals, and product availability information Support Verizon Enterprise Center delivers customizable business lifecycle, operations, and analytics support for your enterprise needs. Business Lifecycle Support Verizon Enterprise Center makes an ebusiness solution possible that will provide support throughout your business lifecycle. These tools extend beyond network management to include customer premises equipment (CPE), orders, billing, and inventory, to name a few. Network management Order entry and tracking Billing view and payment Entitlement management Inventory visibility Operational Support To give you better command and control of your business operations, our operational support tools allow you to monitor your network, self-test circuits, and for some applications ebond your systems to ours. Network performance monitoring On-demand network and bandwidth control Network self-test capabilities Direct bonding 6

7 Analytical Support DIR CONTRACT NO. DIR-TEX-AN-NG-CTSA-010 Diagnostics can offer insights you need to understand your business better. Our analytical support provides tools to evaluate performance, customize bill reports, use forecasting models, and more. Link performance to Service Level Agreements Contract renewals Customized billing reports Forecasting and modeling tools - including "What if?" analysis ebonding ebonding is a system-to-system interface that enables true end-to-end business process integration between a customer's internal applications and Verizon's back-office systems for issue, asset, order, and network management. ebonding is primarily for customers with a high volume of tickets and orders per month that would gain the most operational efficiencies from fully automating their business transactions with Verizon. ebonding services currently supported include: Incident Management Circuit Testing Network Alarms Maintenance Advisories Order Management Inventory Reporting Customers can select ebonding options from this list tailored to meet their distinct business needs and available resources. ebonding for Incident Management ebonding for Incident Management provides for automated trouble ticket case exchange between a customer's help desk application and Verizon. Customer has the choice of messaging implementation: either two-way ("push/pull") publishing or one-way ("pull") customer initiated messaging. Two-way proactive publishing means the customer and Verizon update each other's systems in near real-time. With two-way communications: Customers can submit create ticket or update ticket requests as needed with near real time responses from ebonding. Network efficiencies Improves total time-to-repair (TTR) by reducing the time it takes to refer a ticket from the customer's system to the Verizon system and by providing immediate visibility to ticket state and status. Users can make better support decisions and 7

8 Proactive or Verizoninitiated transactions via two-way communications. Reactive or Customerinitiated transactions. Tickets initiated in a Verizon system can automatically create an incident in the customer's internal application. Verizon automatically sends the customer all updates on Verizon trouble tickets whenever an event occurs on a ticket. One-way publishing is a communications mechanism where the customer initiates all sessions including requests for trouble ticket information updates. One-way communications may be easier to implement for customers building their own basic application interface, but does not provide for event driven, proactive publishing from Verizon. New tickets are published to the customer's help desk immediately after ticket creation Updates to an existing ebonded ticket will be reflected in the customer's help desk ticket in near real time. For example, Verizon lets the customer know when the incident is on maintenance time, resolved or closed. Create a trouble ticket Modify a trouble ticket Retrieve trouble ticket detail and updates Cancel or close a trouble ticket Add comments Request trouble ticket status (for single ticket or all tickets in a specified time frame) Request escalation of a trouble ticket Request to reopen a trouble ticket respond to task requests more quickly. Labor efficiencies Eliminate swivel chair Eliminate duplicate data entry Reduced trouble ticket reworks and requests for clarification Greater visibility Visibility into trouble ticket activity detail allow customers to create their own analysis and reports for greater accountability Customer has immediate visibility into new incidents and the status of existing issues with their Verizon services. Customer communicates incidents and activities associated with those incidents directly from their help desk to the Verizon engineers in near real time. 8

9 Single interface for all incidents. Request to monitor an incident Ability to open an incident on any service with Verizon, including local, long distance, data, internet and managed services via the same interface Resource efficiencies. It is more cost-effective to build one vs. multiple interfaces into Verizon Ease of use. Customer uses the same process and forms to open an incident across their portfolio of Verizon services ebonding for Circuit Testing ebonding for Circuit Testing provides for customer initiated automated testing of circuits with integration to trouble management services. Ability to perform an inventory search based on flexible search criteria Circuit Topology Research is performed before beginning a test Circuit Monitor Test Query by geographic location Query by circuit characteristics Circuit characteristics provided DXC Alarm errors DXC Performance errors DXC Configuration/Cross-connect errors Current fiber outage that may be impacting this circuit Current tickets associated with this circuit Status if circuit is currently under Test or Monitor with Verizon Quick Port Monitor for Frame Circuits Monitors live data activity Specify monitor duration Check the status of the test High level analysis of results Proactive action taken on failed test Labor efficiencies Eliminate swivel chair Relieves customer from having to wait for inventory information from Verizon. Greater visibility Greater visibility into circuit topology and configuration offers the opportunity for improved business operations. Simplified customer workflow Circuit testing allows the customer to investigate the fitness of a circuit without opening a trouble ticket. 9

10 Circuit Test results Intrusive test that takes circuit down for least duration Automatically opens a Priority 1 ticket in ETMS and enters test results in the ticket for failed tests when an outage is detected and there are no open Priority 1 tickets opened against that circuit. Network efficiencies Improved time-to-repair by proactively and more efficiently identifying and reporting network troubles to Verizon. Greater network availability resulting from improved time-to-repair represents real user productivity gains to the customer. Greater visibility Greater visibility into circuit issues will allow the customer to assign tickets to the appropriate trouble resolution group more effectively. Test results can be stored offline for benchmarking and analysis reporting for improved network planning. ebonding for Network Alarms ebonding for Network Alarms delivers circuit, switch and managed device alarms and alarm milestones in near real-time directly to the customer's network management tool. Through this service customers will benefit from network alarm and trouble ticket correlation capabilities available through the award winning Verizon Integrated Management Platform for Advanced Communications Technologies (IMPACT). One-way, "push" interface Publish New Alarms and Alarm Milestones Alarm and Ticket Correlation Alarm Properties Attributes Detail Transactions are initiated by Verizon Verizon will proactively publish new alarms and alarm status changes/milestones updates, from highest severity to a clear state, to the customer's network management tool in near real time Receive details of the trouble tickets associated with network alarms. This includes automated and manual tickets. Detailed alarm properties attributes for each individual alarm condition for trouble shooting information purposes. Information provided includes: Alarm ID Alarm Severity Verizon Enhanced Visibility Near real-time visibility into network health and operational status Monitor network events as they are worked. Operational Efficiencies Reduction in customer time spent monitoring network Improved customer experience Customer leverages existing application(s) to monitor the operational 10

13 Subject Agent POC Name Notification Type (Approval, Cancel, Reschedule) Event list Event ID Event Date From / To Duration Circuit List Circuit ID Maintenance Location Send Date Notification ID Full Message maintenance events ebonding for Order Management Order Management allows customers to electronically submit service requests and obtain detailed service order status reports for a wide range of products. Ability to submit orders for new service requests Request order status details Customer systems may submit orders requesting new Voice, Data and Internet services as well as CPE. Service features include: Create order for new service request Support for more than 70 services in the Verizon product portfolio Get Product List to see what products are supported Address Validation Provides customer with current state and status of the service request including: Milestones These are the key activities which describe the movement of an order to completion including loop installation date, service activation, billing start date, and much more. Jeopardies These are alerts to conditions Labor efficiencies Eliminates re-keying Avoids "swivel chair" and faxes or s Immediate notification of issues Simplified workflow Leverages existing application interfaces and databases Automates messaging exchange Great visibility Customer will have direct access to the most up to date order status information for improved asset management. 13

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